4/17/06
Chicago has never been known for condemning sin, but it is condemning the hot-sheet joints that once housed it. Check out Ken Tsang’s update...
4/16/06
Describe the architectural style of the fountain in the foreground. I’m going with Chalice Wright / Falling Altar. Your take?
4/15/06
I revisited Chicago’s North Kenwood neighborhood today for the first time in nearly 15 years. In many ways the area has changed dramatically. The...
4/14/06
If Thanksgiving sucked for Nicholas “Condo King” Gouletas of American Invsco, the Easter Bunny is making up for it. After years of knock-down drag-out...
4/13/06
Anyone who wishes to build on the old Children’s Memorial Hospital site may be in for an uphill battle. We’re told the land is...
4/13/06
Check out this remodeled two-bedroom condo (you might have to log in at the Koenig & Strey site for the link to work): hardwood...
4/13/06
Everyone has been curiously silent on the subject of Children’s Memorial Hospital moving from Lincoln Park to Streeterville. The new downtown digs won’t open...
4/12/06
Over at our Uptown neighborhood journal, Yo Chicago’s Nat has a very cool gallery of photos he took last weekend at the Cub’s opener....
4/12/06
In case you were wondering, you just entered LINCOLN SQUARE! Obnoxious markers like the one above have popped up in various neighborhoods in recent...
4/12/06
The Hummer in its natural habitat – the neighborhoods of Chicago. Hell, why not just get a U.S. Army-issue Humvee and be done with...
4/6/06
Now there’s a balcony that a girl could let her hair down from. We’ve been cruising around the Washington Park neighborhood, which is in...
4/6/06
OK, you liked the last one, so I thought I’d try another. In which neighborhood did Yo’s Joeff find this gentleman and his Hummer?...
4/5/06
Whipped, I tell you. Chicago has nearly 300 neighborhoods (you’ll soon see them all in Yo’s neighborhood guide), but only 77 are official. LA...
4/5/06
In the pantheon of urban blight, you’ve got to rank bad store signage at or near the top of the list. Back-lit plastic signs...
4/4/06
Speaking of neighborhood faces, guess where Yo’s Joeff Davis took this photo.
4/4/06
The Wicker Park & Bucktown Chamber of Commerce has its view of neighborhood faces. And YoChicago has its view of Wicker Park and Bucktown...
4/3/06
Check out the University of Chicago’s south campus development plan. By 2008, this area will be home to a residence hall for 900 students,...
3/29/06
Speaking of Woodlawn, as we were in an earlier posting – when you consider that the neighborhood has hardly any restaurants and a dearth...
3/29/06
Often thought of as tatty hinterlands–when thought of at all–N Sheridan Rd boasts several buildings that once represented Chicago’s highest standard of luxury accomodation,...
3/29/06
Dude! Don’t you think that free newspaper RedEye, like, totally rocks? Judging by the condo development ads that keep appearing in the Chicago Trib’s...